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June 26, 2025

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Fitness Trackers Are Failing Millions — This Fix Could Change Everything

June 20, 2025 — Fitness trackers often fail people with obesity by underestimating their energy burn, leading to discouraging results and misguided health data. A scientist's frustrating experience in an exercise class with his mother-in-law where her effort wasn t ...

Potential to Prevent and Treat a Common Type of Inflammatory Arthritis Advanced by the Identification of New Genetic Links

May 30, 2025 — Researchers have discovered two genes, RNF144B and ENPP1, that cause calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease in Americans of European and African descent. This crystalline arthritis is caused ...

Toothache from Eating Something Cold? Blame These Ancient Fish

May 22, 2025 — New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

Making Connections: A Three-Dimensional Visualization of Musculoskeletal Development

May 14, 2025 — Using a new fluorescent mouse model with advanced imaging techniques, researchers have successfully visualized how musculoskeletal components are integrated into the functional locomotor system ...

Eldercare Robot Helps People Sit and Stand, and Catches Them If They Fall

May 13, 2025 — Engineers built E-BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set of robotic handlebars that follows a person from behind, allowing them to walk ...

Novel Point of Attack to Combat Dangerous Tropical Diseases

May 8, 2025 — The efforts of a research team give hope for new treatment approaches for dangerous tropical diseases. The researchers have compiled a high-precision inventory of the membrane proteins of cell organelles of the African sleeping sickness ...

Concerning Chemicals from the Wear of Climbing Shoes Cause Trouble in Indoor Halls

May 1, 2025 — Those who climb indoors are doing something for their health. But climbing shoes contain chemicals of concern that can enter the lungs of climbers through the abrasion of the soles. In a recent ...

A Virtual Reality Game Integrating Smell to Fight Cognitive Decline

Apr. 30, 2025 — Aiming to address age-related cognitive decline, a growing global health challenge, a team of researchers has developed a VR-based smell-training system to help combat it. This innovative VR game activates memory pathways by incorporating olfactory ...

Researchers Identify Pathway Responsible for Calciphylaxis, a Rare and Serious Condition

Apr. 23, 2025 — The global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is rising, with more than 800 million people affected worldwide. Vascular diseases in patients with CKD are unique and grouped as uremic vascular ...

A Wearable Smart Insole Can Track How You Walk, Run and Stand

Apr. 18, 2025 — A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson's ...

Running on Empty: Poor Nutrition Increases Injury Risk for Female Athletes

Apr. 14, 2025 — Proper nutrition is crucial for enhancing athletic performance, supporting recovery and overall health. Now, a new study reveals that proper nutrition is also key to reducing risk of injury, especially for ...

Unsafe Driving During School Drop Offs at 'Unacceptable' Levels

Apr. 13, 2025 — Risky driving by parents and other motorists who do the school run is putting children in danger, according to a new ...

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Common Supplement Reverses Premature Aging in Landmark Human Trial

June 9, 2025 — A rare genetic disorder called Werner syndrome causes premature aging and devastating health complications from an early age, yet treatment options have been lacking. New hope emerges from Chiba ...

The Brain Resorts to Myelin When Other Brain Nutrients Are Depleted

Apr. 13, 2025 — Marathon runners experience reversible changes in their brain myelin. These findings indicate that myelin (a substance that surrounds the neurons) exhibits behavior that was previously unknown, and ...

Preventable Cardiac Deaths During Marathons Are Down

Mar. 31, 2025 — New findings indicate that while the rate of marathon runners who suffer cardiac arrests remained unchanged, their chance for survival is twice what it was in the past. Now, far fewer marathon ...

The Hidden Spring in Your Step

Mar. 28, 2025 — Researchers reveal the way our legs adapt to fast movements. When people hop at high speeds, key muscle fibers in the calf shorten rather than lengthen as forces increase, which they call 'negative ...

Smart Insoles That Could Change the Game for Sports and Health

Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists have created a smart insoles prototype that can accurately measure the body's interaction with the ground, which has the potential to help athletes avoid injuries, or even assist doctors ...

Study Highlights Noninvasive Hearing Aid

Mar. 14, 2025 — A study highlights a new approach in addressing conductive hearing loss. A team of scientists has designed a new type of hearing aid that not only improves hearing but also offers a safe, ...

Researchers Create Gel That Can Self-Heal Like Human Skin

Mar. 7, 2025 — Until now, artificial gels have either managed to replicate high stiffness or natural skin's self-healing properties, but not both. Now, a team of researchers has developed a hydrogel with a unique ...

First Female Runner Could Soon Break the 4-Minute-Mile Barrier

Feb. 25, 2025 — With ideal conditions and strategic pacing and drafting, Kenyan Faith Kipyegon is on the brink of hitting the fabled track and field milestone, a new study suggests. The authors are now calling for a ...

How Do You Treat Rotator-Cuff Tears?

Feb. 3, 2025 — For those over 40, it's a common injury with different treatment options to ...

Changing Therapy Practice to Add Higher-Intensity Walking Improves Early Stroke Recovery

Jan. 31, 2025 — By integrating 30 minutes a day of progressive walking exercise into standard stroke rehabilitation (30 to 60 minutes of physical therapy five days a ...

Movement Matters: Mobility Linked to Better Outcomes for Patients With Heart Failure

Mar. 26, 2025 — Compared with those who spent most of their time in a single room, people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) who were able to travel outside of their home without assistance ...

Acoustic Sensors Find Frequent Gunfire on School Walking Routes

Jan. 6, 2025 — A new study used acoustic sensors that detect the sound of gunfire to show how often children in one Chicago neighborhood are exposed to gunshots while walking to and from school. Results showed that ...

For Optimal Marathon Performance, Check Training Plan, Gear, Nutrition, Weather -- And Air Quality?

Dec. 18, 2024 — When preparing for a marathon, runners don't usually think much about air quality. But maybe they should, according to findings from a new study. When the research team assessed the association ...

Elucidating the Neural Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Cardiovascular Responses

Dec. 16, 2024 — The lateral habenula is a brain region associated with behavioral changes and autonomic responses during psychological stress. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified the involvement ...

Cellular Traffic Congestion in Chronic Diseases Suggests New Therapeutic Targets

Nov. 27, 2024 — Chronic diseases such as diabetes are on the rise and are costly and challenging to treat. Scientists have discovered a common denominator driving these diverse diseases, which may prove to be a ...

Hear This! Transforming Health Care With Speech-to-Text Technology

Nov. 21, 2024 — Researchers study the importance of enunciation when using speech-to-text software in medical ...

Scientists Show Electrical Stimulation Could Be Key to Healthy Tendons

Nov. 20, 2024 — A study suggests that electrical stimulation might be essential for tendons to maintain their health, offering fresh possibilities in tendon repair and ...

Five Minutes of Extra Exercise a Day Could Lower Blood Pressure

Nov. 6, 2024 — New research suggests that adding a small amount of physical activity -- such as uphill walking or stair-climbing -- into your day may help to lower blood ...

Mice Tails Whip Up New Insights Into Balance and Neurodegenerative Disease Research

Nov. 6, 2024 — Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. Research has shown that there's more to the humble mouse tail than previously assumed. Using a novel experimental ...

First Blueprint of the Human Spliceosome Revealed

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have created the first blueprint of the human spliceosome, the most complex and intricate molecular machine in human biology. The vast majority of human genes -- more than nine in ten -- ...

What Standing on One Leg Can Tell You: Biological Age

Oct. 23, 2024 — How long a person can stand -- on one leg -- is a more telltale measure of aging than changes in strength or gait, according to new ...

Study Busts Myths About Cause of Gout

Oct. 15, 2024 — A major international study has found gout is a chronic illness where genetics is a major cause, rather than lifestyle choices of the ...

Real-Time Data Shows What Happens When People Lose Their Balance

Oct. 4, 2024 — The study concludes that among older adults, voice recorders are effective at capturing the circumstances and context in which they lost their balance and potentially fell, without relying on recall ...

Walking in Lockstep

Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers studied the neurological control applied to human walking that maintains the correct relationship between the leg positions. They found that the rhythm of each leg continues independently ...

Sep. 17, 2024 — Sport-related stress may contribute to some NCAA Division One swimmers and runners failing to consume enough calories to fuel their ...

Multiple Ways to Evolve Tiny Knee Bone Could Have Helped Humans Walk Upright

Sep. 11, 2024 — The evolution of bones in primates' knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk ...

Pressure Sensing by Muscles Is a Promising New Target for Treatments

Sep. 10, 2024 — A new study shows that the body's muscles sense mechanical pressure. This new discovery has important implications for movement neuroscience and may improve the design of training and ...

Urate Transporter Structures Reveal the Mechanism Behind Important Drug Target for Gout

Sep. 9, 2024 — Ten structures of URAT1 obtained by scientists provide a deep understanding of the mechanism of urate transport to guide gout therapeutic ...

Elevating Analysis of Genomic Data With Breakthrough Mathematical Technique

Sep. 6, 2024 — A novel approach to analyzing single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data has been unveiled by researchers. This method promises to enhance both the precision and speed of data interpretation, ...

Study Shows That 'Super Spikes' Can Increase Track Running Speed by 2%

Sep. 4, 2024 — Research shows that super spikes, scientifically described as advanced footwear technology (AFT) spikes, can give runners about a 2% edge in middle-distance track races, like the 800- and ...